Commentary: Using potential outcomes causal methods to assess whether reductions in PM2.5 result in decreased mortality

Commentary: Using potential outcomes causal methods to assess whether reductions in PM2.5 result in decreased mortality

Causal inference regarding exposures to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and mortality estimated from observational studies is limited by confounding, among other factors. In light of a variety of causal inference frameworks and methods that have been developed over the past century to specif...

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Main Authors: Julie E. Goodman, Wenchao Li, Louis Anthony Cox, Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
Series:Global Epidemiology
Subjects:
Causal methods
Fine particulate matter
Mortality
Instrumental variable
Structural nested mean model
Potential outcomes framework
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590113321000055

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